COBLES ESCORTED INTO TWO HARBOURS Newbiggin, Northumberland. At 8.52 on the morning of the 28th June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that there were two cobles at sea and the weather was gradually becoming worse. The...
YACHT AND THREE TOWED TO RAMSGATE Ramsgate, Kent. At 9.18 p.m. on Tuesday the 16th of July, 1963, the east pier watchman told the honorary secretary that the yacht K.N. was firing distress signals three quarters of a mile south of Ramsgate...
ISLAND CALL At 2.15 p.m. on 3rd November, 1963, the local doctor informed the honorary secretary that a sick patient on Inishmaan Island needed hospital treatment. There was a fresh easterly breeze with a moderate sea. The tide was ebbing....
H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent presents the silver medal to Coxswain Richard Walsh of Rosslare Harbour. - View image in PDF
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Whitby, Yorkshire. At ten o'clock on the morning of the 27th of March, 1961, the honorary secretary noticed that six local fishing boats were still at sea. At 10.10, when the life-boat Mary Ann Hep- worth was launched, there was a fresh...
ADRIFT AND LEAKING Holyhead, Anglesey. At 11.33 a-mon 2nd February, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that two small boys were adrift in a pram dinghy which was leaking and oar-less in the outer harbour. There was a moderate...
LOBSTER BOAT SOUGHT Anxiety was felt about the local lobster fishing boat Mayflower which had put out at ii a.m. on i6th March, 1964, and had not returned five hours later. Weather conditions were rapidly deteriorating and there was a full...
NURSE ON BOARD At noon on 3ist March, 1964, the local nurse informed the honorary secretary that a sick patient required urgent medical attention on the mainland. There was a fresh easterly breeze with a choppy sea, and it was low water. The...
COBLES ESCORTED Filey, Yorkshire. At 8 a.m. on 8th May, 1964, the life-boat second coxswain reported that six local fishing cobles were at sea in deteriorating weather. At 8.55 the life-boat The Isa & Penryn Mihted was launched with the...
SEARCHED IN VAIN Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. At 7.50 a.m. on 20th June, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the Weston police had reported that an elderly man was missing from a small fishing ketch somewhere between...